48. I think part of it is a divide between urban and rural folks.

From my POV, urban and suburban folks generally tend to look at firearms as weapons for killing people. They have little real life experience with them unless they are gangsters or are/were in the military, and fear firearms, and maybe justifiably so, because in their environment, they are primarily used to harm human beings.

Most people raised in the country grew up around firearms, and view guns as a means to get food and/or a means of recreation.

I've lived rural area all my life and guns were just there. Everybody had them, mostly for hunting, and nobody ever went off the rails and shot anybody.